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Sightings
Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
27,433 entries
April 17, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Grand rapids, MI
I was sitting on my porch waiting with my sisters for our mom too pick us up when I saw what looked like a star moving then I seen more they were going ne from sw they ended up going superfast in a line then I seen 3 helicopters going in same direction I asked my sister if she could see all of this and she said yes I sat on the porch till my mom came when I came back home around 1 am they were all gone they looked like stars very small
April 17, 2020 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Timber, OR
Clear black sky. Many lights coming in from west coast flying in a straight line. Some would break and go in a different direction. There was not a sound from any of them.
April 17, 2020 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Yelm, WA
Long string of lights moving SW to NE. Some lights actually appeared to pass others, but they are in no discernible pattern. No sound was heard.
April 17, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Baldwin, MI
Saw strange lights in the sky. They made no sound. All headed in relatively the same direction, northeast. Too fast, too bright, and too many all together to be satellites. Checked flight pattern app and there was no reported air traffic overhead. Some where moving in pairs at slightly different speeds.
April 17, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Medford, OR
My eight and twelve year old girls were camping out in the backyard and saw multiple lights all headed in the same direction. They called me outside and I observed probably fifteen or twenty of these lights traveling all in the same direction. They were headed slightly NorthEast from Medford, Oregon toward Klamath Falls area. They could have been planes but they weren’t blinking. They were traveling too slowly and steadily to be shooting stars. Once one shone a bright light twice in our direction, causing two large blinks. Most were traveling in the same path, but occasionally one would be going across the main path for a while. My husband and fifteen year old son also came out and observed for a while.
April 17, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Salem, OR
50+ lights perfect spaced flying over our heads, about 20min in the lights were coming in a formation of 2 and 3 triangle shape, one would disappear and re-apier in a different location and glide back into the triangle shape but continuing the perfect space between lights. I have video to prove
April 17, 2020 · 9:07 PM · LIGHT
Edgar, MT
I was looking up by big dipper and saw a flash of light. Kept watching and saw a small point of light that was moving around irregularly Thought maybe it was just me so I got close to roof line so I had a reference. Was definitely moving around. Then it stopped for a second and shot off at incredible speed. Moved 15 to 20 degrees in less than a second.
April 17, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Shoshoni, WY
They were moving in an evenly spaced line from the south going NE. I had my boyfriend come out to see and bring the binoculars. We watched the line go on for at least 10 minutes and there were at least 50 of them. Occasionally there would be 2 side by side or one "passing" another. There were no other aircraft over is at the time according to flight tracker app.
April 17, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Paonia, CO
First we saw lights moving in formation like a triangle and then more appeared moving west to east. The more we watched the more we saw. They went in all directions and at different speeds. They seemed to be silent and high up. We called other people in the valley and everyone could see the same lights.
April 17, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Salt Lake City, UT
20-30 lights moving in a north northeast direction at extreme speeds. Also saw 2 bright white light flash one time. Like a camera flash. I know how satellites move. These were not satellites.
April 17, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Bailey, CO
Faint lights moving in a straight line spaced evenly not too close to each other. Moving across the night sky, no blinking lights. Appear to be very high. NW to SE . They just kept coming. About 30 in all. At one point two brighter lights traveled in the same direction, same speed but parallel to the others. No sound.
April 17, 2020 · 8:35 PM · LIGHT
Chicago, IL
series of high altitude whte lights (satellites?) traveling NE approximately above Chicago Indiana border
April 17, 2020 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Mount Pleasant, SC
My friend and I were sitting on the top deck of my house in Mount Pleasant by the Ravenel bridge watching the sunset when I noticed this bright solid red light, not blinking or flashing, slowly moving across the West horizon - if I had to guess it would be over Daniel Island or maybe even farther away. We stood up to get a better look and saw two more red lights following behind it and then it seemed like they got in a “V” formation before slowly disappearing upwards one at a time. Definitely wasn’t a plane bc the lights on planes flash and move waaaaaay faster than these lights did as they were almost hovering before disappearing up.
April 17, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
Friday, April 17th around 8pm, north central Phoenix. Lights that if were there only 1 would have looked like a satellite flying across the night sky. The lights were the same brightness as the stars and could have been missed very easily. The lights were moving southwest to northeast. One after another at very close to the same distance apart, guessing 10” apart at ground view. From time to time there would be 2 lights together coming along the same line. Reminded me of like a squad of 8 or so lights and an accompanying squad leader coming along side. This happened 6 or 8 times. But this was not a strict formation or interval. I saw at least 40 lights that very much appeared to be separate vessels. I’m sure that I did not see them when they first started across our sky. I also went in to get my wife and she saw many. They just kept coming. I watched until there were no more. They didn’t waiver from their path, it looked like they had somewhere to go.
April 17, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Litchfield Park, AZ
Looked like moving stars. First spotted one and then many followed over the hour. Most of them appeared in the west, between Orion and Venus, and headed north where they seemed to rise up higher and higher until they disappeared. A few of them moved further to the east and one that hovered for about 4 or 5 minutes made a huge semi circle from west to north to southeast before it disappeared. Several just appeared and rose up briefly till they disappeared. One that was particular brighter seemed to slowly pulsate as it flew.
April 17, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Peoria, AZ
Witnessed a string of star-like lights traveling at an even speed across the sky from the southwest to the northeast. They were evenly spaced at first and seemed to be following the same path, but then there would be times when four lights in relatively close proximity would go by, or one light would take a slightly different path. They did all seem to travel at the same speed, no matter what path they took.
April 17, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Washougal, WA
sitting in back yard roasting marshmallows when we thought we saw the space station fly by, subsequently 25 plus lights flew by all traveling west to east, Most were single file, a couple were almost side by side.
April 17, 2020 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
we were outside approximate time, when 39 light objects crossing sky from west to northeast. At first , when the first one appeared, we thought it was space station or satellite, then immediately after it another appeared at same altitude and then following each one at high altitude and speed . we couldn't figure out what objects were, but clearly were not airplanes. But why so many and so fast... we watched trying to figure out what was going on.. They were so high , they were reflecting sunlight from sun setting hour previous. was this military aircraft or what... and so many at once.
April 17, 2020 · 7:20 PM · LIGHT
Franklin, TN
Object appeared to be a satellite moving from southwest to northeast. When object west about 60 degrees up from the horizon and west/northwest of my location, there was a bright light shining in my direction for about two seconds. I am a military/commercial pilot retired after 41 years and over 12,000 hours of flying. Probably half of my time is at night. The light looked like a sun glint. Could it have been a brief sun reflection off of a satellite like the Hubble? The angle to the sun below the horizon could explain it. Except for the two second flash, the time of travel from overhead to the horizon was about one minute.
April 17, 2020 · 11:00 AM · LIGHT
Sweet Home, OR
My girlfriend and I was camping up at Green Peter Lake. And as we scanned the night sky, we noticed that what looked like satellites were going from West to East. But then some started going in groups of 2 to 3. And this continued for at least 30 minutes. And at least 200 crafts. The lights never blinked. And not a sound to them.
April 17, 2020 · 9:35 AM · LIGHT
Mancelona, MI
My family and I were sitting around our bonfire. My oldest daughter (17) noticed some "planes flying" really fast. She then noted that the lights were flying too fast to be planes and they were not flashing or colored in any way. They looked exactly like stars, really far away and they flew very fast. The "stars" were flying equal distance apart. They all seemed to be coming from a southwest area, heading northeast. We live on the 45th parallel in Michigan so halfway between the equator and north pole. We saw at least 50 of these lights. At first they seemed to be moving all in a straight line coming from the same place. Then we noticed that there were other lines coming from different areas but all seemed to be headed towards the same destination. At one point we saw one that got brighter and dimmed instantly like a dimmer switch, as it was passing the north star. We recorded a video.
April 17, 2020 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Toronto (Canada), ON · Canada
Saw bunch of lights flying in a big circle, was foggy. Wasn’t sure if 1 big UFO with multiple lights or just that many different ufos
April 16, 2020 · 10:10 PM · LIGHT
Libby, MT
Was watching sky for satellites and noticed what seemed like one traveling from southwest to northeast and one after another came over the cabinet mountains. There were no strobes or flashing lights like airlines have, also no sound at anytime. They were not in any specific formation but all were heading the same way what seemed pretty close. I’ve seen multiple satellites in the sky before but never that many so close going the same direction. Maybe they were high altitude military aircraft idk.
April 16, 2020 · 10:05 PM · LIGHT
Sandy, UT
Wife and I are in hot tub and lights flying North! We thought it was a satellite. They are still going. Roughly 20 so far and all continuing in a straight line. Some are stopping and turning now. Cannot be this many satellites. Some seem brighter than others. One just disappeared completely. Thinking these must be ufo’s. They appear to be in a circle now across the sky coming in a path. This is weird!! Came from West to East according to the wife!